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...Commandment. A conventionally sentimental tear-teaser, pleasing only because of Colleen Moore, who manages to be charming as the poor young working-girl with the invalid husband, and George Cooper, whose comedy has genuine humor and finesse...
...leading female role was played by Miss Frances Grayson, a niece of Rear Admiral Grayson, whose charm and clever acting contributed largely to the success of the performance. Miss Grayson is a new member of the company and made an unusually attractive Irish colleen. The happy-go-lucky and romantic blacksmith, interpreted by William Sullivan, makes love to her in most amusing fashion; while his assistant at the forge, as played by Mr. Shaw O'Nolan, quite interrupts the third act with his inimitable rendering of some clever Irish songs...
...love the Land of Old Black Joe" and "My Sahara Rose" give melody. The Acrobats, Messeurs Regal and Moore, at first burlesque their profession in an amusing manner and then prove themselves to be performers of unusual ability, Lillian Fitzgerald, appearing as a Parisian and later as an Irish Colleen kept up the atmospheres of surprise and showed an excellent sense of comedy-value as well...
...Castle Square Opera Company, now in its third century of performances, will add a new opera to its repertoire next week, Sir Julius Benedict's "The Lily of Killarney." This is a musical version of the drama, "The Colleen Bawn," whose thrilling story is adapted admirably to lyrical expression. The heiress, Ann Chute, has a rival in Eily O'Connor, the Colleen Bawn. Myles na Coppaleen, the peasant lover of Eily, is devoted to her although knowing her to be the wife of another, Hardress Cregan. The latter would desert her and wed Ann Chute in order to raise...
...cast follows: Eily O'Connor, the Colleen Bawn, Miss Clara Lane; Mrs. Cregan, Miss Kate Davis; Sheelah, Miss Cora Deane; Miss Ann Chute, the heiress, Miss Edith Mason; Hardress Cregan, Mr. Thomas H. Persse; Myles na Coppaleen, Mr. J. K. Murray; Mr. Corrigan, Mr. John Read; Father Tom, Mr. Arthur Wooley; Donny Mann, Mr. William Wolff...